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Megan Carter
Phone: (972) 732-1001
Fax: (972) 732-9218
E-Mail: carter@slater-matsil.com
BIOGRAPHY
Megan Carter is an intellectual property lawyer and Registered Patent Attorney who focuses her practice on helping businesses protect and leverage existing and potential IP assets worldwide. Ms. Carter has extensive experience in working with a range of businesses from startup companies to global conglomerations. Ms. Carter serves as chief outside counsel to an aerospace research and development firm and a wind energy company. She has experience providing IP services to clients in diverse industries, including:
- Semiconductors
- Garage-door opening and door control systems
- Minerals
- Business machine technologies
- Fracking
- Oil and gas E&P and oilfield services and operations
- Wind turbines, solar panels and other renewable energy technologies
- Autonomous robotic devices
- Aviation
- Hydroelectric technologies and
- Medical devices and healthcare
Prior to attending law school, Megan was pre-med undergrad, while obtaining her Mechanical Engineering degree, and worked as a mechanical engineer for an aircraft design firm. Her roles there included assisting in writing preliminary patents and actively participating in discussions with the firm's patent attorneys. Since then, Megan has strategically built and managed U.S. and foreign patent portfolios, as well as helped with patent litigation matters, due diligence investigations, clearance searches, trademark prosecution, and drafting various agreements, including, licensing agreements, NDAs, confidentiality agreements, field trial agreements, and joint development agreements.
EDUCATION
- J.D., Texas Tech University School of Law (2008)
- Articles Editor, Texas Tech Law Review
- Exchange Student, The George Washington Law School Munich Intellectual Property Law Summer Program, Munich, Germany (Summer 2007)
- Exchange Student, Touro Law Center China Summer Law Program, Hong Kong and Xiamen, China (Summer 2007)
- B.S.M.E., Texas Tech University (2004)
- Premedical Biology and Chemistry (expanded coursework)
- Member, Delta Delta Delta
- Member, Texas Tech Fastpitch Softball Team
MEMBERSHIPS
- Texas State Bar
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
- Intellectual Property Law and Computer & Technology Sections of Dallas Bar Association and State Bar of Texas
- Nominee Committee Member of Computer & Technology Section
- Texas Young Lawyers Association and Dallas Association of Young Lawyers
- Dallas Women in Intellectual Property
- Dallas Regional Chamber Young Professionals
- LEAD YP class of 2015
- Social Committee
SPEECHES & PUBLICATIONS
- Author, "Help Your Clients Identify & Protect Their Confidential Information," April 2015 Edition of the Texas Lawyer.
- Author, "Is It a Trade Secret, Confidential Information, or Both?" January 2015 Edition of the Dallas Bar Association Headnotes publication.
- Presenter, Address at the State Bar of Texas 26th Annual Advanced Intellectual Property Law Course: "Practical Tips for Navigating the Patent Prosecution Highway" (February 2013) (authored paper for conference proceedings).
- Co-speaker with Bob Johnston, "Patents for the Entrepreneur," SMU Cox School of Business, February 2012.
- Co-author with Bob Johnston, "Global Patent Power on a Budget: Where in the World to File," November 2011 Edition of the Dallas Bar Association Headnotes publication.
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